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All-Star Celebrity Apprentice Premieres Tonight, Sunday, March 3rd at 9 PM ET on NBC for an all new season. Donald Trump is back with his best celebrity cast yet. Fan favorites from previous seasons are back. Brett Michaels the lead singer of Poison – won his season and is back to fight for his charity, Life Rocks Foundation. Donald Trump told me he was amazed Brett wanted to be a contestant again since he had suffered a brain hemmorrhage in 2012.
Other returning celebs include the enigmatic, Gary Busey, rocker Dee Snider, the hot hunky, tall drink of water, country singer, Trace Adkins and Lisa Rinna. Lisa recently released, The Big, Fun, Sexy, Sex Book. Once again, we see the Ominous Omarosa for her 3rd time at bat. Magician, Penn Teller will try to outsmart the competition again if they let him be in charge. All together there will be 14 all-star celebrities fighting to present a check of $250,000 to their charity.
Donald Trump and his family will be back in the boardroom and advising him. The always polished and well-spoken, Ivanka Trump is joined by her brothers, the handsome, Don Jr. and Eric, who is always up for some fun antics.
We can look forward to other winners also filling in as advisors like the feisty, funny Joan Rivers, stodgy, Piers Morgan, the sharp, talented country singer, John Rich.
Dee Snider told me there will be no men against the women this time around. I think this makes for a more fair and fun game. He also gave me some inside info when I interviewed him that a few of the contestants are playing dirty. They would rather collect checks than actually cook up the meatballs in tonight's episode.
Donald Trump said he was the most surprised by Dennis Rodman. He really cleaned up his act and is a powerful player.
Tune in for the two hour episode tonight and watch the drama played out and wait for Trump to announce, "You're Fired." Like he does every week when he sends home the losing project manager.
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Written in March 2015 for Aureus Consulting:
Applying for a job in a foreign country contains a myriad of communication challenges. How do you translate your school records? Should you use British or American English in your cover letter? What if your references don't speak the language of the company you hope to join?
Business standards and professional expectations can be tough to navigate, particularly when it comes to the crux of your application: your resume.
The UK and the US wish to know nothing about you but your qualifications in order to minimize the amount of influence your gender or race has on the decision to call you in for an interview. Many people even forgo listing hobbies. Singapore, on the other hand, normally wants a photograph and a date of birth, and you're more likely to be selected if your experience or previous titles directly overlap with the position you're applying to. In addition to a photo, the Philippines sometimes go as far as expecting your height, weight, religion, and even parents' occupations. Be prepared to fax your resume in Japan, where cultural/organizational fit often outweighs hard technical competency. Inappropriate email addresses are grounds for immediately rejecting a CV according to 38% of employers in Brazil and 36% of employers in China.
Research has shown that it takes just 6 seconds for a potential employer to decide to reject your resume or get to know you better, which means no matter where in the world your career takes you, the first impression of your curriculum vitae is crucial. So how can you develop a resume that is impactful worldwide?
Regardless of cultural norms and expectations, some elements of a strong resume are universal. Your contact information should be near the top and your email address should be professional (no "firstname.lastname@example.com"). Formatting should be consistent and clean – bullets should be neatly aligned; bold and italics are great ways to highlight achievements but they should be used sparingly; and don't mix and match fonts. The descriptions of your work experiences should be evocative and your accomplishments should be quantified. Don't say you were the number one sales person without including the net gain you earned for your company. Don't say you increased the efficiency of production without including by what percent you increased it by. Numbers are clear markers of success in any language.
Put the effort in to make sure your experience is accessible to a person who knows nothing about your country. Every employer in Malaysia will know that Petronas is a Fortune 500 company, but odds are that employers outside of Southeast Asia will not and so it's up to you as an applicant to include that detail. Generic job titles can also work against you. A potential employer won't be able to visualize your responsibilities from "Marketing Manager" alone. Even if that technically was your official title, add a qualifier – like "Head Marketing Manager for APAC Region" or "Digital Content Marketing Manager" – to give readers a shortcut.
And lastly… Spell-check. A careless error makes a poor impression in any culture.

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In the interim, I'd like to post a couple of examples of maps. Not necessarily the best, but they were fun to do, as one of the elements of illustrating for me is trying to envisage a, for lack of a better term at the moment, 'bigger picture'. So here are some examples; first from the Fabled Lands series designed by Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson.
Still, as we are 'looking' at Fabled Lands, let's look at some images from that series, where I tried [as was the intent] of visually showing the Land in all it's variety and diversity.


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Communications Division (Dispatch)
The Communications Division is the heart of any police agency. The dispatchers have the responsibility of maintaining the safety of the officers on the street. Through information gathered by them and the ability to transfer that information can mean the difference between a smooth situation or a disaster.
Knowing how to handle every kind of call is vital to everyone concerned. The Levelland Police Department Communications Division is made up of five full-time dispatchers, and one part-time dispatcher. Communications Supervisor Margaret Golightly has the task of maintaining the division and the dispatchers whether it be in-service training, endless paperwork, or responding to an emergency situation. Our dispatchers are a great bunch of people and we are extremely proud of them.


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51% attack
A type of attack on a decentralized network where a group gains control of the majority of nodes. This would allow them to defraud the blockchain by reversing transactions and double spending ether and other tokens.
An object containing an address, balance, nonce, and optional storage and code. An account can be a contract account or an externally owned account (EOA).
More on Ethereum accounts.
Most generally, this represents an externally owned account (EOA) or contract account that can receive (destination address) or send (source address) transactions on the blockchain. More specifically, it is the rightmost 160 bits of a Keccak hash of an ECDSA public key.
Application Binary Interface (ABI)
The standard way to interact with contracts in the Ethereum ecosystem, both from outside the blockchain and for contract-to-contract interactions. More on ABI.
Application Programming Interface (API)
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of definitions for how to use a piece of software. An API sits between an application and a web server, and facilitates the transfer of data between them.
Application-specific integrated circuit. This usually refers to an integrated circuit, custom-built for cryptocurrency mining.
In Solidity, `assert(false)` compiles to `0xfe`, an invalid opcode, which uses up all remaining gas and reverts all changes. When an `assert()` statement fails, something very wrong and unexpected is happening, and you will need to fix your code. You should use `assert()` to avoid conditions that should never, ever occur. More on smart contract security.
A claim made by an entity that something is true. In context of Ethereum, consensus validators must make a claim as to what they believe the state of the chain to be. At designated times, each validator is responsible for publishing different attestations that formally declare this validator's view of the chain, including the last finalized checkpoint and the current head of the chain. More on attestations.
Base fee
Every block has a reserve price known as the 'base fee'. It is the minimum gas fee a user must pay to include a transaction in the next block. More on gas and fees.
Beacon chain
The Beacon Chain was the blockchain that introduced proof-of-stake and validators to Ethereum. It ran alongside the proof-of-work Ethereum Mainnet from December 2020 until the two chains were merged in September 2022 to form the Ethereum of today. More on beacon chain.
A positional number representation where the most significant digit is first in memory. The opposite of little-endian, where the least significant digit is first.
A block is a bundled unit of information that includes an ordered list of transactions and consensus-related information. Blocks are proposed by proof-of-stake validators, at which point they are shared across the entire peer-to-peer network, where they can easily be independently verified by all other nodes. Consensus rules govern what contents of a block are considered valid, and any invalid blocks are disregarded by the network. The ordering of these blocks and the transactions therein create a deterministic chain of events with the end representing the current state of the network. More on blocks.
Block explorer
An interface that allows a user to search for information from, and about, a blockchain. This includes retrieving individual transactions, activity associated with specific addresses and information about the network.
Block header
The block header is a collection of metadata about a block and a summary of the transactions included in the execution payload.
Block propagation
The process of transmitting a confirmed block to all other nodes in the network.
Block proposer
The specific validator chosen to create a block in a particular slot.
Block reward
The amount of ether rewarded to the proposer of a new valid block.
Block status
The states that a block can exist in. The possible states include:
- proposed: the block was proposed by a validator
- scheduled: validators are currently submitting data
- missed/skipped: the proposer did not propose a block within the eligible time frame
- orphaned: the block was reorg'd out by the fork choice algorithm
Block time
The time interval between blocks being added to the blockchain.
Block validation
The process of checking that a new block contains valid transactions and signatures, builds on the heaviest historical chain, and follows all other consensus rules. Valid blocks are added to the end of the chain and propagated to others on the network. Invalid blocks are disregarded.
A sequence of block , each linking to its predecessor all the way to the genesis block by referencing the hash of the previous block. The integrity of the blockchain is crypto-economically secured using a proof-of-stake-based consensus mechanism. What is a blockchain?
The nodes which can be used to initiate the discovery process when running a node. The endpoints of these nodes are recorded in the Ethereum source code.
An abstract instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter or a virtual machine. Unlike human-readable source code, bytecode is expressed in numeric format.
Byzantium fork
The first of two hard forks for the Metropolis development stage. It included EIP-649 Metropolis Difficulty Bomb Delay and Block Reward Reduction, where the Ice Age was delayed by 1 year and the block reward was reduced from 5 to 3 ether.
Casper FFG
Casper-FFG is a proof-of-stake consensus protocol used in conjunction with the LMD-GHOST fork choice algorithm to allow consensus clients to agree on the head of the Beacon Chain.
The Beacon Chain has a tempo divided into slots (12 seconds) and epochs (32 slots). The first slot in each epoch is a checkpoint. When a supermajority of validators attests to the link between two checkpoints, they can be justified and then when another checkpoint is justified on top, they can be finalized.
Converting code written in a high-level programming language (e.g., Solidity) into a lower-level language (e.g., EVM bytecode).More on compiling smart contracts
A group of at least 128 validators assigned to validate blocks in each slot. One of the validators in the committee is the aggregator, responsible for aggregating the signatures of all other validators in the committee that agree on an attestation. Not to be confused with sync committee.
Computational infeasibility
A process is computationally infeasible if it would take an impracticably long time (e.g. billions of years) to do it for anyone who might conceivably have an interest in carrying it out.
When a supermajority of nodes on the network all have the same blocks in their locally validated best blockchain. Not to be confused with consensus rules.
Consensus client
Consensus clients (such as Prysm, Teku, Nimbus, Lighthouse, Lodestar) run Ethereum's proof-of-stake consensus algorithm allowing the network to reach agreement about the head of the Beacon Chain. Consensus clients do not participate in validating/broadcasting transactions or executing state transitions. This is done by execution clients](#execution-client.
Consensus layer
Ethereum's consensus layer is the network of consensus clients.
Consensus rules
The block validation rules that full nodes follow to stay in consensus with other nodes. Not to be confused with consensus.
Constantinople fork
The second part of the Metropolis stage, originally planned for mid-2018. Expected to include a switch to a hybrid proof-of-work/proof-of-stake consensus algorithm, among other changes.
Contract account
An account containing code that executes whenever it receives a transaction from another account (EOA] or contract).
Contract creation transaction
A special transaction that includes a contract's initiation code. The recipient is set to `null` and the contract is deployed to an address generated from the user address and `nonce`. that is used to register a contract and record it on the Ethereum blockchain.
The economics of cryptocurrencies.
Đ (D with stroke) is used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, and Faroese to stand for an uppercase letter "Eth". It is used in words like ĐEV or Đapp (decentralized application), where the Đ is the Norse letter "eth". The uppercase eth (Ð) is also used to symbolize the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. This is commonly seen in older Ethereum literature but is used less often today.
DAG stands for Directed Acyclic Graph. It is a data structure composed of nodes and links between them. Before The Merge, Ethereum used a DAG in its proof-of-work algorithm, Ethash, but is no longer used in proof-of-stake.
Decentralized application. At a minimum, it is a smart contract and a web user interface. More broadly, a dapp is a web application that is built on top of open, decentralized, peer-to-peer infrastructure services. In addition, many dapps include decentralized storage and/or a message protocol and platform. Introduction to dapps
Data availability
The property of a state that any node connected to the network could download any specific part of the state that they wish to.
The concept of moving the control and execution of processes away from a central entity.
Decentralized autonomous organization (DAO)
A company or other organization that operates without hierarchical management. DAO may also refer to a contract named "The DAO" launched on April 30, 2016, which was then hacked in June 2016; this ultimately motivated a hard fork (codenamed DAO) at block 1,192,000, which reversed the hacked DAO contract and caused Ethereum and Ethereum Classic to split into two competing systems. More on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)
Decentralized exchange (DEX)
A type of dapp that lets you swap tokens with peers on the network. You need ether to use one (to pay transactions fees) but they are not subject to geographical restrictions like centralized exchanges – anyone can participate.
Deposit contract
The gateway to staking on Ethereum. The deposit contract is a smart contract on Ethereum that accepts deposits of ETH and manages validator balances. A validator cannot be activated without depositing ETH into this contract. The contract requires ETH and input data. This input data includes the validator public key and withdrawal public key, signed by the validator private key. This data is needed for a validator to be identified and approved by the proof-of-stake network.
Short for "decentralized finance," a broad category of dapps aiming to provide financial services backed by the blockchain, without any intermediaries, so anyone with an internet connection can participate. More on decentralized finance (DeFi)
A network-wide setting in proof-of-work networks that controls how much average computation is required to find a valid nonce. The difficulty is represented by the number of leading zeroes that are required in the resulting block hash for it to be considered valid. This concept is deprecated in Ethereum since the transition to proof-of-stake.
Difficulty bomb
Planned exponential increase in proof-of-work difficulty setting that was designed to motivate the transition to proof-of-stake, reducing the chances of a fork. The difficulty bomb was deprecated with the Merge.
Digital signature
A short string of data a user produces for a document using a private key such that anyone with the corresponding public key, the signature, and the document can verify that (1) the document was "signed" by the owner of that particular private key, and (2) the document was not changed after it was signed.
The process by which an Ethereum node finds other nodes to connect to.
Distributed hash table (DHT)
A data structure containing `(key, value)` pairs used by Ethereum nodes to identify peers to connect to and determine which protocols to use to communicate.
Double spend
A deliberate blockchain fork, where a user with a sufficiently large amount of mining power/stake sends a transaction moving some currency off-chain (e.g. exiting into fiat money or making an off-chain purchase) then reorganizing the blockchain to remove that transaction. A successful double spend leaves the attacker with both their on and off-chain assets.
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)
A cryptographic algorithm used by Ethereum to ensure that funds can only be spent by their owners. It's the preferred method for creating public and private keys. Relevant for account address generation and transaction verification.
Encryption is the conversion of electronic data into a form unreadable by anyone except the owner of the correct decryption key.
In the context of cryptography, lack of predictability or level of randomness. When generating secret information, such as private keys, algorithms usually rely on a source of high entropy to ensure the output is unpredictable.
A period of 32 slots, each slot being 12 seconds, totalling 6.4 minutes. Validator committees are shuffled every epoch for security reasons. Each epoch has an opportunity for the chain to be finalized. Each validator is assigned new responsibilities at the start of each epoch. More on proof-of-stake
A validator sending two messages that contradict each other. One simple example is a transaction sender sending two transactions with the same nonce. Another is a block proposer proposing two blocks at the same block height (or for the same slot).
'Eth1' is a term that referred to Mainnet Ethereum, the existing proof-of-work blockchain. This term has since been deprecated in favor of the 'execution layer'. Learn more about this name change(opens in a new tab).
'Eth2' is a term that referred to a set of Ethereum protocol upgrades, including Ethereum's transition to proof-of-stake. This term has since been deprecated in favor of the 'consensus layer'. Learn more about this name change(opens in a new tab).
Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)
A design document providing information to the Ethereum community, describing a proposed new feature or its processes or environment (see ERC). Introduction to EIPs
Ethereum Name Service (ENS)
The ENS registry is a single central contract that provides a mapping from domain names to owners and resolvers, as described in EIP-137. Read more at ens.domains(opens in a new tab)
Execution client
Execution clients (formerly known as "Eth1 clients"), such as Besu, Erigon, Go-Ethereum (Geth), Nethermind, are tasked with processing and broadcasting transactions and managing Ethereum's state. They run the computations for each transaction using the Ethereum Virtual Machine to ensure that the rules of the protocol are followed.
Execution layer
Ethereum's execution layer is the network of execution clients.
Externally owned account (EOA)
Externally owned accounts (EOAs) are accounts that are controlled by private keys, typically generated using a seed phrase. Unlike smart contracts, externally owned accounts are accounts without any code associated with them. Typically these accounts are managed with a wallet.
Ethereum Request for Comments (ERC)
A label given to some EIPs that attempt to define a specific standard of Ethereum usage.
A proof-of-work algorithm that was used on Ethereum before it transitioned to proof-of-stake. Read more
The native cryptocurrency used by the Ethereum ecosystem, which covers gas costs when executing transactions. Also written as ETH or its symbol Ξ, the Greek uppercase Xi character. More on ether.
Allows the use of EVM logging facilities. Dapps can listen for events and use them to trigger JavaScript callbacks in the user interface. More on events and logs
Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)
A stack-based virtual machine that executes bytecode. In Ethereum, the execution model specifies how the system state is altered given a series of bytecode instructions and a small tuple of environmental data. This is specified through a formal model of a virtual state machine. More on Ethereum Virtual Machine.
EVM assembly language
A human-readable form of EVM bytecode.
Fallback function
A default function called in the absence of data or a declared function name.
A service carried out via smart contract that dispenses funds in the form of free test ether that can be used on a testnet.
Finality is the guarantee that a set of transactions before a given time will not change and can't be reverted. More on proof-of-stake finality.
A change in protocol causing the creation of an alternative chain or a temporal divergence into two potential block paths.
Fork choice algorithm
The algorithm used to identify the head of the blockchain. On the execution layer the head of the chain is identified as the one with the greatest total difficulty behind it. This means the true head of the chain is the one that required the most work to mine it. On the consensus layer the algorithm observes the accumulated attestations from validators (LMD_GHOST).
Fraud proof
A security model for certain layer 2 solutions where, to increase speed, transactions are rolled up into batches and submitted to Ethereum in a single transaction. They are assumed valid but can be challenged if fraud is suspected. A fraud proof will then run the transaction to see if fraud took place. This method increases the amount of transactions possible while maintaining security. Some rollups use validity proofs. More on optimistic rollups.
The initial test development stage of Ethereum, which lasted from July 2015 to March 2016.
A virtual fuel used in Ethereum to execute smart contracts. The EVM uses an accounting mechanism to measure the consumption of gas and limit the consumption of computing resources (see Turing complete). More on gas and fees.
Gas limit
The maximum amount of gas a transaction or block may consume.
Gas price
Price in ether of one unit of gas specified in a transaction.
Genesis block
The first block in a blockchain, used to initialize a particular network and its cryptocurrency.
Go Ethereum. One of the most prominent implementations of the Ethereum protocol, written in Go. Read more at geth.ethereum.org(opens in a new tab)
Short for gigawei, a denomination of ether, commonly utilized to price gas. 1 gwei = 109 wei. 109 gwei = 1 ether.
Hard fork
A permanent divergence in the blockchain; also known as a hard-forking change. One commonly occurs when nonupgraded nodes can't validate blocks created by upgraded nodes that follow newer consensus rules. Not to be confused with a fork, soft fork, software fork, or Git fork.
A fixed-length fingerprint of variable-size input, produced by a hash function. (See keccak-256).
Hash rate
The number of hash calculations made per second by computers running mining software.
The second development stage of Ethereum, launched in March 2016 at block 1,150,000.
A network structure meant to optimize the querying of information from across the blockchain by providing an efficient path to its storage source.
Integrated development environment (IDE)
A user interface that typically combines a code editor, compiler, runtime, and debugger. More on integrated development environments.
Immutable deployed code problem
Once a contract's (or library's) code is deployed, it becomes immutable. Standard software development practices rely on being able to fix possible bugs and add new features, so this represents a challenge for smart contract development. More on deploying smart contracts.
Internal transaction
A transaction sent from a contract account to another contract account or an EOA (see message).
The minting of new ether to reward block proposal, attestation and whistle-blowing.
Key derivation function (KDF)
Also known as a "password stretching algorithm," it is used by keystore formats to protect against brute-force, dictionary, and rainbow table attacks on passphrase encryption, by repeatedly hashing the passphrase.
Every account's private key/address pair exists as a single keyfile in an Ethereum client. These are JSON text files which contains the encrypted private key of the account, which can only be decrypted with the password entered during account creation.
Layer 1
Layer 1 refers to the main blockchain in a multi-level blockchain network. For example, Ethereum and Bitcoin are layer one blockchains. Many layer two blockchain offload resource-intense transactions to their separate blockchain, while continuing to use Ethereum's or Bitcoin's layer one blockchain for security purposes.
Layer 2
An area of development focused on layering improvements on top of the Ethereum protocol. These improvements are related to transaction speeds, cheaper transaction fees, and transaction privacy. More on layer 2.
A special type of contract that has no payable functions, no fallback function, and no data storage. Therefore, it cannot receive or hold ether, or store data. A library serves as previously deployed code that other contracts can call for read-only computation. More on smart contract libraries.
Light client
An Ethereum client that does not store a local copy of the blockchain, or validate blocks and transactions. It offers the functions of a wallet and can create and broadcast transactions.
Liquidity is how quickly and easily an asset can be converted into cash or another asset. Decentralized exchanges like Uniswap have multiple liquidity pools where asset holders can deposit their assets where traders can buy and sell them in a decentralized way in exchange for rewards.
The fork-choice algorithm used by Ethereum's consensus clients to identify the head of the chain. LMD-GHOST is an acronym standing for "Latest Message Driven Greediest Heaviest Observed SubTree" which means that the head of the chain is the block with the greatest accumulation of attestations in its history.
Short for "main network," this is the main public Ethereum blockchain.
Max Fee Per Gas
The Max Fee is the absolute maximum amount a user is willing to pay per unit of gas (gwei) to get a transaction included in a block.
Merkle Patricia Tree (MPT)
A data structure used in Ethereum to efficiently store key-value pairs.
Merkle Root
A Merkle root is the single top hash of a Merkle tree. It verifies all transactions within a block.
An internal transaction that is never serialized and only sent within the EVM.
Message call
The act of passing a message from one account to another. If the destination account is associated with EVM code, then the VM will be started with the state of that object and the message acted upon.
The process of repeatedly hashing a block header while incrementing a nonce until the result contains an arbitrary number of leading binary zeros. This is the process by which new blocks are added to a proof-of-work blockchain. This was how Ethereum was secured before it moved to proof-of-stake.
A network node that finds valid proof-of-work for new blocks, by repeated pass hashing (see Ethash). Miners are no longer part of Ethereum - they were replaced by validators when Ethereum moved to proof-of-stake.
Minting is the process of creating new tokens and bringing them into circulation so that they can be used. It's a decentralized mechanism to create a new token without the involvement of the central authority.
Referring to the Ethereum network, a peer-to-peer network that propagates transactions and blocks to every Ethereum node (network participant). More on networks.
Network hashrate
The collective hashrate produced by an entire mining network. Mining on Ethereum was switched off when Ethereum moved to proof-of-stake.
Non-fungible token (NFT)
This is a token standard introduced by the ERC-721 proposal. NFTs can be tracked and traded, but each token is unique and distinct; they are not interchangeable like ETH and ERC-20 tokens. NFTs can represent ownership of digital or physical assets. More on Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).
A software client that participates in the network. More on nodes and clients.
In cryptography, a value that can only be used once. An account nonce is a transaction counter in each account, which is used to prevent replay attacks.
Off-chain means any transaction or data that exists outside the blockchain. Because committing every transaction on-chain can be expensive and inefficient, third-party tools like oracles that handle pricing data, or layer 2 solutions that execute a higher throughput of transactions, handle a bulk of the processing work off-chain, and will submit information on-chain at less frequent intervals.
Ommer (uncle) block
When a proof-of-work miner finds a valid block, another miner may have published a competing block which is added to the tip of the blockchain first. This valid, but stale, block can be included by newer blocks as ommers and receive a partial block reward. The term "ommer" is the preferred gender-neutral term for the sibling of a parent block, but this is also sometimes referred to as an "uncle". This was relevant for Ethereum when it was a proof-of-work network, but ommers are not a feature of proof-of-stake Ethereum because precisely one block proposer is selected in each slot.
Refers to actions or transactions that happen on the blockchain and are publicly available.
Think of it as writing something in a big, shared notebook that everyone can see and check, making sure that whatever is written (like sending digital money or making a contract) is permanent and can't be changed or erased.
Optimistic rollup
A rollup of transactions that use fraud proofs to offer increased layer 2 transaction throughput while using the security provided by Mainnet (layer 1). Unlike Plasma, a similar layer 2 solution, Optimistic rollups can handle more complex transaction types – anything possible in the EVM. They do have latency issues compared to Zero-knowledge rollups because a transaction can be challenged via the fraud proof. More on Optimistic rollups.
An oracle is a bridge between the blockchain and the real world. They act as on-chain APIs that can be queried for information and used in smart contracts. More on oracles
Connected computers running Ethereum client software that have identical copies of the blockchain.
Peer-to-peer network
A network of computers (peers) that are collectively able to perform functionalities without the need for centralized, server-based services.
An off-chain scaling solution that uses fraud proofs, like optimistic rollups. Plasma is limited to simple transactions like basic token transfers and swaps. More on plasma.
Private key
A secret number that allows Ethereum users to prove ownership of an account or contracts, by producing a digital signature (see public key, address, ECDSA).
Private chain
A fully private blockchain is one with permissioned access, not publicly available for use.
Proof-of-stake (PoS)
A method by which a cryptocurrency blockchain protocol aims to achieve distributed consensus. PoS asks users to prove ownership of a certain amount of cryptocurrency (their "stake" in the network) in order to be able to participate in the validation of transactions. More on proof-of-stake.
Proof-of-work (PoW)
A piece of data (the proof) that requires significant computation to find. More on proof-of-work.
A new transaction type which accepts "blobs" of data for Ethereum. This "blob" data is temporarily stored on the beacon chain for 4096 epochs (~18.2 days), and can optionally be pruned after to help reduce hardware requirements for node operators.
Public key
A number, derived via a one-way function from a private key, which can be shared publicly and used by anyone to verify a digital signature made with the corresponding private key.
Data returned by an Ethereum client to represent the result of a particular transaction, including a hash of the transaction, its block number, the amount of gas used, and, in case of deployment of a smart contract, the address of the contract.
Re-entrancy attack
An attack that consists of an attacker contract calling a victim contract function in such a way that during execution the victim calls the attacker contract again, recursively. This can result, for example, in the theft of funds by skipping parts of the victim contract that update balances or count withdrawal amounts. More on re-entrancy.
An amount of ether included in each new block as a reward by the network to the miner who found the proof-of-work solution.
Recursive Length Prefix (RLP)
An encoding standard designed by the Ethereum developers to encode and serialize objects (data structures) of arbitrary complexity and length.
A type of layer 2 scaling solution that batches multiple transactions and submits them to the Ethereum main chain in a single transaction. This allows for reductions in gas costs and increases in transaction throughput. There are Optimistic and Zero-knowledge rollups which use different security methods to offer these scalability gains. More on rollups.
Remote procedure call (RPC)
Remote procedure call (RPC) is a protocol that a program uses to request a service from a program located on another computer in a network without having to understand the network details.
Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)
A family of cryptographic hash functions published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The process of converting a data structure into a sequence of bytes.
Shard / shard chain
Shard chains are discrete sections of the total blockchain that subsets of validators can be responsible for. This will offer increased transaction throughput for Ethereum and improve data availability for layer 2 solutions like optimistic rollups and ZK-rollups. More on danksharding.
A scaling solution that uses a separate chain with different, often faster, consensus rules. A bridge is needed to connect these sidechains to Mainnet. Rollups also use sidechains, but they operate in collaboration with Mainnet instead. More on sidechains.
Demonstrating cryptographically that a transaction was approved by the holder of a specific private key.
A computer programming term that describes an object of which only a single instance can exist.
A slasher is an entity that scans attestations searching for slashable offenses. Slashings are broadcast to the network, and the next block proposer adds the proof to the block. The block proposer then receives a reward for slashing the malicious validator.
A period of time (12 seconds) in which new blocks can be proposed by a validator in the proof-of-stake system. A slot may be empty. 32 slots make up an epoch. More on proof-of-stake.
Smart contract
A program that executes on the Ethereum computing infrastructure. Introduction to smart contracts.
Short for "succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge", a SNARK is a type of zero-knowledge proof. More on zero-knowledge rollups.
Soft fork
A divergence in a blockchain that occurs when the consensus rules change. Contrary to a hard fork, a soft fork is backwards compatible; upgraded nodes can validate blocks created by non-upgraded nodes as long as they follow the new consensus rules.
A procedural (imperative) programming language with syntax that is similar to JavaScript, C++, or Java. The most popular and most frequently used language for Ethereum smart contracts. Created by Dr. Gavin Wood. More on Solidity.
Solidity inline assembly
EVM assembly language in a Solidity program. Solidity's support for inline assembly makes it easier to write certain operations.
An ERC-20 token with a value pegged to another asset's value. There are stablecoins backed by fiat currency like dollars, precious metals like gold, and other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
Depositing a quantity of ether (your stake) to become a validator and secure the network. A validator checks transactions and proposes blocks under a proof-of-stake consensus model. Staking gives you an economic incentive to act in the best interests of the network. You'll get rewards for carrying out your validator duties, but lose varying amounts of ETH if you don't. More on Ethereum staking.
Staking pool
The combined ETH of more than one Ethereum staker, used to reach the 32 ETH required to activate a set of validator keys. A node operator uses these keys to participate in consensus and the block rewards are split amongst contributing stakers. Staking pools or delegating staking are not native to the Ethereum protocol, but many solutions have been built by the community. More on pooled staking.
Short for "scalable transparent argument of knowledge", a STARK is a type of zero-knowledge proof. More on zero-knowledge rollups.
A snapshot of all balances and data at a particular point in time on the blockchain, normally referring to the condition at a particular block.
State channels
A layer 2 solution where a channel is set up between participants, where they can transact freely and cheaply. Only a transaction to set up the channel and close the channel is sent to Mainnet. This allows for very high transaction throughput, but does rely on knowing number of participants up front and locking up of funds. More on state channels.
Supermajority is the term given for an amount exceeding 2/3 (66%) of the total staked ether securing Ethereum. A supermajority vote is required for blocks to be finalized on the Beacon Chain.
The process of downloading the entire latest version of a blockchain to a node.
Sync committee
A sync committee is a randomly selected group of validators that refresh every ~27 hours. Their purpose is to add their signatures to valid block headers. Sync committees allow light clients to keep track of the head of the blockchain without needing to access the entire validator set.
Terminal total difficulty (TTD)
The total difficulty is the sum of the Ethash mining difficulty for all blocks up to some specific point in the blockchain. The terminal total difficulty is a specific value for the total difficulty that was used as the trigger for execution clients to switch off their mining and block gossip functions enabling the network to transition to proof-of-stake.
Short for "test network," a network used to simulate the behavior of the main Ethereum network.
A tradable virtual good defined in smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.
Data committed to the Ethereum Blockchain signed by an originating account, targeting a specific address. The transaction contains metadata such as the gas limit for that transaction. More on transactions.
Transaction fee
A fee you need to pay whenever you use the Ethereum network. Examples include sending funds from your wallet or a dapp interaction, like swapping tokens or buying a collectable. You can think of this like a service charge. This fee will change based on how busy the network is. This is because validators, the people responsible for processing your transaction, are likely to prioritize transactions with higher fees – so congestion forces the price up.
At a technical level, your transaction fee relates to how much gas your transaction requires.
Reducing transaction fees is a subject of intense interest right now. See Layer 2.
The ability of a network to mediate transactions without any of the involved parties needing to trust a third party.
Turing complete
A concept named after English mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing - a system of data-manipulation rules (such as a computer's instruction set, a programming language, or a cellular automaton) is said to be "Turing complete" or "computationally universal" if it can be used to simulate any Turing machine.
A node in a proof-of-stake system responsible for storing data, processing transactions, and adding new blocks to the blockchain. To activate validator software, you need to be able to stake 32 ETH. More on staking in Ethereum.
Validator lifecycle
The sequence of states that a validator can exist in. These include:
- deposited: At least 32 ETH has been deposited to the deposit contract by the validator
- pending: the validator is in the activation queue waiting to be voted into the network by existing validators
- active: currently attesting and proposing blocks
- slashing: the validator has misbehaved and is being slashed
- exiting: the validator has been flagged for exiting the network, either voluntarily or because they have been ejected.
Validity proof
A security model for certain layer 2 solutions where, to increase speed, transactions are rolled up into batches and submitted to Ethereum in a single transaction. The transaction computation is done off-chain and then supplied to the main chain with a proof of their validity. This method increases the amount of transactions possible while maintaining security. Some rollups use fraud proof. More on zero-knowledge rollups.
An off-chain solution that uses validity proofs to improve transaction throughput. Unlike Zero-knowledge rollups, validium data isn't stored on layer 1 Mainnet. More on validium.
A high-level programming language with Python-like syntax. Intended to get closer to a pure functional language. Created by Vitalik Buterin. More on Vyper.
Software that holds private keys. Used to access and control Ethereum accounts and interact with smart contracts. Keys need not be stored in a wallet, and can instead be retrieved from offline storage (i.e. a memory card or paper) for improved security. Despite the name, wallets never store the actual coins or tokens. More on Ethereum wallets.
The third version of the web. First proposed by Dr. Gavin Wood, Web3 represents a new vision and focus for web applications - from centrally owned and managed applications, to applications built on decentralized protocols. More on web3.
The smallest denomination of ether. 1018 wei = 1 ether.
Zero address
An Ethereum address, composed entirely of zeros, that is frequently used as an address to remove tokens from owned circulation. A distinction is drawn between tokens formally removed from a smart contract's index via the burn() method and those sent to this address.
Zero-knowledge proof
A zero-knowledge proof is a cryptographic method that allows an individual to prove that a statement is true without conveying any additional information. More on zero-knowledge rollups.
Zero-knowledge rollup
A rollup of transactions that use validity proofs to offer increased layer 2 transaction throughput while using the security provided by Mainnet (layer 1). Although they can't handle complex transaction types, like optimistic rollups, they don't have latency issues because transactions are provably valid when submitted. More on zero-knowledge rollups.
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An 18-year-old skateboarder was killed Thursday while taking a ride on the side of truck.
Alexander Ciszewski was holding onto the passenger side of the truck while it was driving down 47th Avenue near 32nd Place around 11:30 a.m. yesterday when he lost control and fell underneath the rear wheel of the vehicle, said police.
Ciszewski, a Sunnyside resident, was taken to Elmhurst Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police are looking for the truck driver involved in the accident.
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The following obituaries were received for Saturday –
Stanley Cobb – Bedford
Stanley Cobb, 77 , of Bedford, passed away on January 3, 2013 at 1:57 p.m. at Garden Villa in Bedford. He was born in Bedford on February 17, 1935 to Henry & Ollie (Childers) Cobb, Stanley married Phyllis Ann Sparks on April 7, 1956 and she preceded him in death on May 28, 2000.
Stanley worked as a Railroad Engineer for over 40 years for CSX and Monon Railway; he was a member of the Oolitic VFW Post #1686
Survivors include: one son, Doug Cobb and his wife Becky, of Bedford; two grandchildren, Cassidy Cobb, of Bedford and Sean Cobb, of Lanesville; one great grandchild, Hunter Cobb, of Bedford; two sisters, Marie Fields, of Florida and Maggie Jones, of Bedford; one brother, Claude E. Cobb, of Waverly.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife Phyllis Ann Cobb; son Michael Cobb, five brothers, Arthur, Perry, Leonard, Matt and Ed Cobb.
Cremation was chosen with burial in Cresthaven Memory Gardens.
In lieu of Flowers, donations may be made to Oolitic VFW Post# 1686
Cresthaven Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements
Chris Edward Bridges – Mitchell
Chris Edward Bridges, 47, of Mitchell, passed away at 4:15 a.m. on Friday, January 4, 2013, at I.U. Health Hospice House.
Born July 1, 1964 in Bedford, he was the son of Charles Ronnie Bridges and Edna (Poll) Bridges. He married Wanda Jo Hill on May 13, 1995, and she survives. He had worked at Elliott Stone Co. for 6 years and then Victor Oolitic Stone Co. for 20 years, retiring in 2011. He was a graduate of Bedford North Lawrence High School. He had attended Limestone Baptist Church, Bedford; was an avid league bowler and was a hunter, fisherman and softball player.
Surviving include: his father, Charles Ronnie Bridges, of Bedford; his wife, Wanda Jo Bridges, of Mitchell; three sons, Christopher Matthew Bridges and wife Amy, of Bedford; Andrew Thomas Bridges, of Bedford and Ryan Edward Bridges, of Greenwood; four daughters, Kaci Renae and husband Dakota Burnette, of Oolitic; Sierra Ariel Bridges, Hannah Nowell Bridges and Amanda Renee Bridges, all of Mitchell; four grandchildren, Drake, Elijah, Talon and Jade; three brothers, Charles R. Bridges, Jr., Mitchell, David Ray Bridges and wife Lori, of Texas and Michael Sean Bridges and wife Alice, of Bedford; his sister, Kim Bridges, of Bedford; three special nieces, Stephanie P. Rogers, Kaylee Bridges and Faith Marie Bridges and several other nieces and nephews; and, his mother-in-law Wanda Spinks, of Bedford.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Edna Bridges.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, January 8, 2013, at Ferguson-Lee Funeral Home. Burial will be in Tunnelton Cemetery. Friends may call on Monday, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.fergusonlee.com.


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The Town of Braintree through the efforts of the Braintree Historical Commission and with the financial support of the Community Preservation Committee have undertaken efforts in the conservation and preservation of the Elm Street Cemetery dating back to the early 1700's.
Barbara Donohue, RPA, Cultural Resource Consultant worked for over a year with the Braintree Historical Commission with funding provided by the Community Preservation Committee to develop a preservation management plan for the long-term restoration and preservation of the Elm Street Cemetery. The Elm Street Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in the Commonwealth dating back to 1716. The plan has been completed and is available to the public. however due the size of the document it is available in two volumes:
For further information please contact the Planning and Community Development Office by emailing Christine Stickney, Director or call at 781-794-8230.


text: Artist: Game (The Game) Album: Purp & Patron: The Hangover (Mixtape) Song: Lost Typed by: AZ Lyrics [Verse 1] Sometimes I have fucked up dreams Wake up in cold sweats, can't sleep Hit the kitchen for some Moet I get drunk, but I ain't never smoke no wet Been on tour 3 months and I ain't had no sex Been meditating, exercising my mental bowflex Michael Jackson dead, which one of us 'bout to go next Me, Mary J, Robin Thicke or Britney Spears Nigga I ain't afraid to die, tell the devil I'm right here Hoe, I can take the strings out of these Nike airs Tie it round the ceiling fan and end it right here Kick the ladder cause I climbed that twice Hate it or love it, I'm one blood nigga, it's my life And I can die if I want to, and mama you can cry if you want to Just tell my sons the truth and as the maggots eat away at my flesh Let this iced out cross, walk through the bones in my chest [Chorus] I can try my way (I'm lost) I can't find my way (lost) I can't find my way (I'm lost) I can't find my way (lost) I can't find way [Verse 2] If I tell the story you gotta keep it between us Only other niggaz that know are Spliff Star and Buss I call Buss when I need a shoulder And I don't always listen so he call me back and say :I told you" But anyway, my paps is a Peadophile, how you stick your 28 year old dick in your child And now how it feel to be 52 and have a son that's a millionaire, and he don't fuck with you, daddy! She was only in the six grade, the day I heard her scream I should have hit you with the switch blade Then she ran but I ain't know which way she ended up in Vegas doing everything her pimp say I've seen her one Christmas with a black guy I took her to the store and bought her shades with my last five My little sister is a prostitute, and I'ma tell you what I'm about to do Go get her cause she (lost) [Chorus] She can't find her way She can't find her way She can't find her way She can't find her way She can't find her way [Verse 3] That's all I'm thinking on this Grey hound Usually I'll be in this seat with brids and a tre pound But this time I riding for family Like Khaled did for Ross, they hold it down in Miami On my way to Michigan, not to see D12 I'm knocking on every door, have you seen this female? Here's a picture of my pretty baby sister Here go one when she was ten and this one our last Christmas Low light skinned girl, long curly black hair, sorry for wasting time I know you probably don't care Feel like I walk longer than just 8 miles Ran into a borded up BMF safe house Made me think about all the time I spent with Meech makin' it rain in Magic city When life was a Georgia peach Now life is a rotton apple Run faster than New York You see my sister call me 'cause life is too short to get (lost) [Chorus] She can't find her way She can't find her way She can't find her way She can't find her way She can't find her way


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Much has happened to blog about, and plenty of times I began composing drafts of posts... I just never got around to finishing them before things changed. Again. I got a job, which upended my 'carefully balanced' schedule of dog walks and writing and (at least the intention of) blogging. I've since quit said job (yeah, short-lived experiment; one learns more from mistakes than from success). Two of the four puppies we took in as fosters back in December are still not adopted, which means they're still here, and as part of our effort to make them more adoptable I've begun taking them to training (well, one of them, since that's all I can afford time- and money-wise). I'm still not done with the dog book, but over the last two weeks I made some serious progress. I hope to have that done and delivered to the publisher for another round of edits before the month is out.
The dog book cover, as designed by Everytime Press |
Oh, and we had the film festival here in Curaçao two weeks ago, April 5th to 9th. Forty-seven absolutely extraordinary films (well, except one). Impossible to see them all, obviously, but we did manage, with careful logistics planning that included Cor taking off two whole days from work (and one extra one after the festival, just to rest up), to see fifteen of them. Sixteen, if you count the preview film, Jackie, which screened one week before the festival began (and again during the festival, but seeing it beforehand allowed us to fit in one more film over that busy weekend).
Our film-fest booty, courtesy of Cor (who, unlike me, remembers to take photos of these things for posterity): tickets grouped and stapled by day, from Wed Apr 5th through Sunday Apr 9th. |
And I desperately want to share those fifteen (fine, sixteen) films we saw. They were thought-provoking and gorgeous: their narrative styles, the cinematography, the diversity of stories and points of view, their timeliness and value in view of current events. So, as of this week, I'll start posting a review every few days here. No, I won't make the mistake of committing to a certain day of the week or even a fixed (-ish) schedule; we all know how well that's worked out for me in the past. But I do want to share them, for you film-lovers out there, of course, but also for me, as a sort of journal record of the impact these films had on me.
So... See you soon!


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Godforbid we are just told to eat something good for us. No, it's never that easy. Can you scream omega fatty acid and mercury at the same time?
Here's what I gathered: fish is good for you because it contains omega fatty acids that can reduce the risk of heart failure and stroke, plus it can help brain development in the baby. Yay! But wait! Fish can also be high in mercury which can cause problems with cognitive development in unborn children. Boo! Although, theoretically, if both were true, wouldn't we all have average kids because the omega acid would cancel out the mercury? Guess not.
Anyway, it looks like large fish are the mercury culprits and small fish are good to eat. In short:
Bad: albacore (white) tuna, swordfish, shark, tilefish (golden bass or golden snapper), king mackerel
Good: pretty much everything else including skipjack (light) tuna
search: fish and pregnancy, consuming fish while pregnant, safe fish for eating


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Right off the kitchen area: A sign from a shop in Provence. Photo:Suzanne Sylvester |
A girl had a dream: To save her pennies to buy a home and make it her own.
There was no help from current husband, ex-husband, lottery, bank robbery* or family money to lean upon. The dream would have to take root in hard work and perseverance. (*plausible if Jason Statham was my sidekick.)
My 16 years in commercial real estate afforded this dream to come to fruition. Found a perfectly-suited beach bungalow within walking distance to the ocean. It was perfectly suited as it had no existing updated design so it could be made completely my own. A complete tear down on the interior without having to pay for someone else's style and taste. (Thanks to friends Natalie Hughes and John Hunter for helping me see this vision come to light with their architectural drawing prowess!) Built in 1920, I'm only the second owner.
Complete interior tear down indeed. Given my passion for cooking, I went to work on saving to rip out the galley of a kitchen and build from the ground up. A moment to find the best possible materials and wait until I could afford the rest. The latter, as it turns out, is not so much as a financial roadblock as it is a design one. What to choose, what to choose.....someday I'll pick the backsplash tile which speaks to me....
Soon enough the rest of the elements will come. For now I savor the fact that the kitchen was built 100% by steadfast determination, a Midwest work ethic which serves me well to this day.
Oooof! We were worried we'd find Jimmy Hoffa. |
Saved the plumbing for a bar area right off the kitchen. Yeah, um, did not save the wallpaper. |
The existing pantry was barely large enough to hold the dog treats, let alone my tea and champagne! |
The elements:
While searching for materials, I knew I wanted to break some rules. I am in love with white kitchens, but wanted more warmth and something more in line with the French farmhouses I vacationed in throughout the villages of France.
Photo: Marcia Prentice |
Photo:Suzanne Sylvester; Styled: Kathy Delgado |
Millwork: Off-the-rack cabinets didn't tug at my heart or my eye so I opted to work longer hours and save even more pennies. Custom cabinetry was created with the help of my new friends at Naples Kitchen Studio. A warm honey color and custom trim brought in the elements of a friend's home in Normandy, France where I had spent a summer week. Not a big fan of oak, so I found love with maple. The standard wood knobs were given to a friend and I went on the hunt for something more appealing...
Hardware: While in Paris, I stumbled upon a flooring shop the size of a standard walk-in closet. Glorious hardware was sitting off to the side in a box but the price was far more than I had budgeted so I thanked monsieur and left. I did not stop thinking about that hardware the entire 13 hr trip home to California! They soon landed via parcel post with the present of a French cookbook, by dear sweet monsieur! I did "beat" them up a bit with a hammer (quelle horreur) much to my millwork architect's wide eyes and mumblings under his breath of "crazy bitch".
Photo: Suzanne Sylvester |
Counters: Sandstone and concrete were materials I had toyed and played with samples for days on end. One day I saw a piece of broken granite at a contractor's office. I was amazed at how the light hit the variations of the exposed stone. I immediately knew that I would chip away the perfectly rounded bullnose edge everyone seems to love so. The sleek black granite was far too formal for my taste so I requested it honed. The subcontractor showed up with three large slabs of granite and when I refused it pointing to my sketch of how I wanted the edges, they left the granite in the backyard and walked out mystified. "We'll have to call the boss." Eventually "the boss" showed up explaining to the "lady" that she was out of her mind and didn't understand "these things" and how granite is to be installed and used and designed and blah, blah, blah. As I hadn't yet moved into the house there wasn't a stitch of paper around. I walked to my car, grabbed a yellow paper pad, pulled from my knowledge of legal contracts in the commerical real estate world, drafted a 3 paragraph waiver, signed, dated and shoved it in front of him.
"Sign this. You are legally and financially released from all obligations regarding this granite and you're now paid in full. Now break my counter!" The result was so well loved by the subcontractor that he asked permission to use it as the cover for one of his brochures. That was 10+ years ago and I'm still so very much in love with the look.
Island: After toying with a kitchen table, I preferred a working service at the proper height for rolling out dough and so forth. A permanent island seemed so predictable and in every house you see. That just wasn't for me. I searched through shelter magazines and found one in Maison Coer that had the most amazing drawers! I sketched one out and sent both picture torn out of the magazine and sketch to a millwork contractor in Canada whose work I had seen. At the time it was far more economical to have it done in Canada and the contractor was a proven source. The hardware pulls were found at a local hardware store but only came in a super shiny nickel. So I soaked them for 2 weeks in a vinegar mixture set in the sun. Fabulous results for me! I opted for a butcher block instead of marble as I wanted the island on hidden casters and since it would sit on wood, a softer material than tile or stone, my fear is it would have left indentations. The casters allow me to roll it off to the side for large dinner parties.
Photo: Marcia Prentice |
Curtains: I love as much California sun to come through so I prefer little to no window treatments. However, being mad for textiles I did find a solution to marry both wants. Standard curtains, blinds or anything of the sort is far too expected so I discovered linen runners I fell in love with in the South of France (which I now carry). Installed two decorative NAILS (yes, Nails) at a local speciality hardware store that specializes in crafstman style (soooo inexpensive) and simple curtain rings from Target in burnished gold. The runners are from Vintageweave Interiors with no sewing involved in case I want to turn them back into runners at some point; I merely folded them over to create a unique valance of sorts. Love the simplicity! {Runner available in blue/black, red, or white stripes. More photos in the blog post below or to purchase: TEXTILES AT VINTAGEWEAVE INTERIORS}
Pizza Oven: There was one designed, purchased and on its way from the East Coast. Contractor forgot to add in the plumbing and reinforced flooring and now there isn't one. As you can see I've forgotten about it and am no longer holding a grudge. (!!!)
Xavier Pouchard stools. Photo: Suzanne Sylvester |
Photo: Suzanne Sylvester |
All accessories shown: Vintageweave Interiors
Photo: Marcia Prentice |
Marcia Prentice, one of my most favorite photogs, took some AMAZING shots for Apartment Therapy, one of my most favorite home decor sites! All the goodies can be seen and read about here, with everything from sources to a fun Q&A about the process:
Apartment Therapy Kathy Delgado/Vintageweave Kitchen Tour
Marcia came for lunch and we laughed and chatted and laughed and laughed some more. We took some photos, too. Enjoy! Voulez-vous manger?
Photo: Marcia Prentice |


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Corporate Giving Guidelines
Last Updated: March 4, 2015
Justin Brands, Inc. encompasses Justin Boots, Justin Original Workboots, Nocona Boots, Tony Lama Boots, and Chippewa Boots. The family of brands boasts a rich heritage that values quality products and a culture that gives back to the community, always remembering that we are stewards of this company and these brands. Because we receive numerous requests throughout the year from so many worthy organizations, it is necessary to establish guidelines and parameters that help provide direction on what we are able to support.
The areas we generally provide funding or donations to are:
- Youth
- Military / Veterans
- Law Enforcement
- Western Lifestyle
- Disaster relief
In order to maintain our brand focus, we do not generally support:
- Individuals (scholarships, fellowships, personal assistance)
- Individual sports teams' sponsorships
- Religious endeavors
- Schools, including charter schools, pre-schools, elementary, middle or high schools
- Sports and athletic teams
- Unsolicited auction product or table sponsorship
- Organization fundraising campaigns
- Fundraisers benefiting medical research foundations
- Music festivals/concerts
- County or state fairs
If you would like to submit a request for a sponsorship/donation, please send your request on the appropriate letterhead via regular mail to:
Justin Brands, Inc.
Attn: Sponsorship/Donation
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Please include the following in your request:
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- Due date of materials/funds
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- What you provide in exchange (advertising, etc.)
Upon review, if we determine your request fits within our corporate giving guidelines, we will contact you for additional information. Due to the heavy volume of requests that are received, we are unable to provide a response to every request. If you have not heard back from us within 30 days, you can assume we are unable to participate. We appreciate the consideration and understand there are so many causes and efforts that are deserving of support. We simply cannot accommodate them all.
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Kim Kardashian & Kris Humphries -- DIVORCE CASE SETTLED!!!
Kim K & Kris H DIVORCE CASE SETTLED!
9:00 AM PT -- The judge just announced in court what we told you earlier today. The divorce case is settled. The terms have not been disclosed, but the big news for Humphries ... he won't have to pay any penalties for blowing off last week's settlement conference.
TMZ has learned Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian have settled their year-and-a-half long divorce battle, and it looks like it will be announced in court today ... this according to sources directly connected with Kris.
TMZ broke the story Thursday ... Kris had softened his position about demanding an annulment because his case had gone South -- in other words, there was no proof Kim committed fraud when she married him.
Our sources say Kris will not show up in court today. Sources connected with the bballer tell us ... he's with his team today, gearing up for the NBA playoffs. This is significant, because Kris was ordered to court -- a judge wants him there when he gets hit with fines for not showing up last week.
We're told Kim will show up.
As for the settlement, it's confidential so far, but you can bet this was a divorce and NOT an annulment.
To put this in perspective, the divorce battle raged on for 536 days. They were married for 72 days.


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68-year-old Racine man killed in Virginia boat race
GLOUCESTER, Va. (AP) -- Authorities say a sailor in the annual Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race was killed after a sail on the vessel knocked him overboard.
The Virginia Marine Police say 68-year-old Paul Stephen Case, of Racine, Wis., died following the Friday night incident off Windmill Point, near Gloucester.
Case was one of seven on the crew of the schooner homeported in Pasadena, Md.
Officials say the crew of the 43-foot Cuchulain was taking down the sails when Case was struck on the windy and choppy seas. He was not wearing a life jacket.
Crew members tried to save him and CPR was performed.
According to the race's website, more than 30 vessels participated in the race from Annapolis, Md., to north of Hampton Roads.


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Dex & Dad Print
Isla Dream PrintsLooking for nursery inspiration for a special little boy in your life? We have you covered with our magical collection of safari, jungle, ocean and dragon-themed prints and wall decals. Our unique hand drawn characters make the sweetest bedtime companions for your little ones and are bound to make your children smile.
Dex and his dad. They are as precious to us as they are to each other. There is no bond quite like that between a father and son. Baby Dex feels safest when he's is nestled into his dad who would move mountains to protect him.
Hand-drawn with love by Australian artist Shannon Berg. You'll fall in love with its stunning quality. Choose your preferred size and paper and start creating the bedroom your little dreamer will adore.
- Exquisitely hand-drawn wall prints for children who deserve a soothing and beautiful place to sleep, embrace their imagination and cherish the magic of childhood
- Prints use world-class paper: a choice of standard matte or uber-luxe fine art paper (You'll love them both. The fine art paper is next level. You can read about the differences in the FAQs below)
- Archival ink is used for all prints. This ink is specifically designed to maximise the lifespan of your artwork
- All prints come in standard Australian sizes: A4, A3, A2 and some in 50cm x 70cm poster size. Ideal for all budgets and room sizes
- Drawn with heart by Australian artist Shannon Berg. Thank you for supporting a small Australian business
- Every enchanting character in the Isla Dream collection is original
- Your print is delivered in A-grade Isla Dream print tubes, rolled and wrapped with tissue paper. Ready for gifting
- $8 flat rate post within Australia
- International delivery available
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- Watermark is not displayed on purchased prints
- Purchase does not include frames
- Please note the colours may vary slightly from those shown on the screen.
How long will it take to receive my order? Please allow five days for dispatch. Within Australia, allow 5-10 days for delivery. Overseas orders approximately 7 – 14 days. If your order is urgent, please let us know.
Who will deliver my order? We use Australia Post and all orders are tracked. You'll receive an email confirming your order and another with the tracking code once dispatched (Don't forget to check your spam folder).
What is the difference between the two paper options?
- Fine art: first-class quality. Made from plush 310gsm cotton rag, acid-free PH7 and pure natural fibres, it's thicker, roughly textured and luxurious to touch. The rich, crisp colours leap off the paper and look and feel like a watercolour painting. Our specialist fine art printer uses 8-12 colourants and create millions of colours. Framed and treated well, your wall print can be treasured forever with less risk of fading. Because we want your little one to have the best, the price difference as low as possible. Have a look. You may be surprised.
- Matte paper: our standard prints use high quality, elegant and vibrant 310gsm matte paper, smooth to the touch and cool white in appearance.
What sizes are available? All Isla Dream prints come in standard Australian sizes: A4, A3, A2 and many in 50cm x 70cm poster size.
Where can I buy frames to fit my print? In Australia, you can find frames to fit our prints in K-mart, Ikea, Country Road and Officeworks.
Check out our blog for some of our framing tips here.


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NetGear's ReadyNAS 2100 has 4 disk slots and costs $2000 with no disks. That seems a bit too expensive for just 4 disk slots.
Dell has good network storage solutions too. PowerVault NX3000 has 6 disk slots, so that's an improvement. However, it costs $3500; the NX3100 doubles the number of disks at double the price. Just in case I'm looking at the wrong hardware for lots of storage, the trusty PowerVault MD3000i SAN has a good 15 drives, but it starts at $7000.
While you can argue about support from Dell, Netgear or HP or any other company being serious, it's still pretty damn expensive to get those drives RAID'ed together in a box and served via iSCSI. There's a much cheaper option: build it yourself. Backblaze has built it's own box, housing 45 (that's forty five) SATA drives for a little under $8000, including the drives themselves. That's at least 10 times cheaper than current offers from Dell, Sun, HP, etc.
Why is NAS (or SAN - still storage attached to a network) so expensive? After all, it's main function is to house a number of HDDs, create a RAID array and serve them over a protocol like iSCSI; nearly everything else is just colored bubbles (AKA marketing terms).


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Is this a contraction of something? How does it differ from something like 寝ると or 寝てると?
Is this a contraction of something? How does it differ from something like 寝ると or 寝てると?
This is obviously a contraction of 寝てると. Not sure if this pertains to certain dialects/age groups etc. though. Haven't heard this one myself in real life.
The ーと in this sentence relates two parts as a consequence, but also gives an admonishment: I.e. this character is effectively saying: "You shouldn't sleep in such a place or you will catch a cold, you know!".
(Contrast this with ーば (as in こんなとこで寝れば...)which would just states the fact/opinion plainly: "if you sleep in such a place, you will catch a cold.")
The "tto" contraction used here is emphatic, or possibly male speech. Or both. It strengthens the statement, as if the character is saying, "you really shouldn't sleep here."
It is a phonetic feature of Japanese that changes toward stopped consonants are emphatic. For instance consider:
「。。。」と → 「。。。」って
とても → とっても


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I don't wear too many blouses, and I'm not sure why. I think part of it is that a very traditional collar-with-stand blouse just isn't interesting enough for me! It makes me feel too cookie-cutter lawyer-y (even though none of my co-workers dress like that either).
However, Burda publishes some interesting variations on the theme, including this Burda 09-2011-128. I don't know that it struck me at the time, but when I was doing some snoop shopping last year I ran across the Theory "Deronisa" blouse, $200 and available in various colors. I remembered this pattern and could see the possibilities in it more.
This was sort of a wearable muslin--made with fabric from Robin's swap party!--intended to see if the pattern would be nice for a silk with long sleeves (redrafting the shoulder to remove the extension. I think it will work, though it is (mostly) past long sleeve weather so it will probably be a project for next Fall.
My main alteration to this was to add a CB seam and back darts. It would otherwise be fairly shapeless, though to give Burda credit the Deronisa blouse is rather shapeless as well. I used my basic woven pullover top to get the shape of the back seam and the darts. Makes life so easy!
I did not do anything for an SBA. I thought I might end up needing to narrow the front pleats, but I don't feel that this is excessively large over the bust.
Made by Evyline did an excellent photo tutorial on the unusual collar construction. I won't repeat her work--definitely check it out if you plan to make this.
Just to pique your interest, the collar is in the back only. The front extends past the back bodice, drafted in a length to meet the collar, so the blouse is a consistent height from the front to the back. I think it's a great way to get the extra formality/crispness of a collar without being too much. The front darts are rotated into the neckline pleats.
You first stitch the outer collar in place, then finish it by stitching the inner collar over it. Be sure to fold under the seam allowance of the inner collar before pinning it in place so it will be neatly tucked under when turned to the inside.
You can see that rather than radically trim the side seam of the collar, I left it pretty wide and focused on turning it inward to create a neat corner. I find that when I clip very close to the seams on collars, it is actually harder for me to get a sharp point than if I clip the long edge close and leave the short edge longer and concentrate on folding the SA in and pressing in place.
Here's what the collar looks like on the outside when it's finished. Feel free to observe my truly horrendous attempt at stitching in the ditch. I never stitch in the ditch; this is why. Next time I would probably either topstitch, or more likely hand stitch the inner collar to the SA.
I finished the armscyes with bias tape before sewing the side seams, mostly because I am really lazy about measuring bias tape and the opening it's meant to finish to get an exact length. I don't know that this was the best method; at the very least, I should have extended the bias tape 1/2 inch beyond the edge of the fashion fabric on each end.
My house made (to pretend that we are at a fancy bistro) bias tape is too wide. I may need to go in and trim it, leaving a raw edge because it folds under on itself and threatens to show.
It is drafted CRAZY long. There is also a dress length for this pattern. There is no indication the shirt is meant to be a tunic but that's about the length they have marked for the blouse hem. I ended up shortening it by 5 inches.
I keep talking about all the sloppy things I did in making this (and while we're on the subject, the hem is totally crooked), but actually for the most part I think it is quite well done, if I do say so myself. The pleats came out sharp, and the front facing finish is crisp. The corners of the collar are not *perfectly* flush with the front, but pretty darn close.
I like the blouse a lot, but I'm not crazy about the shape of the armscye. It just sits a little weird. I don't know how much of that is related to my extra-wide bias tape and crisp fabric, though. I am definitely interested in making the pattern again.
I've paired it here the my Burda 09-2008-108 skirt, in wool with a lace overlay.
All photos are here and the pattern review is here.


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Paying a smuggler, Edgar Mejia could afford to take only one child with him to the United States. He chose his 3-year-old "warrior" son, leaving his 7- and 12-year-olds with their mother in Honduras.
"Pitifully, I had use him like a passport to get here," Mejia said last week after picking up milk from volunteers at a Brownsville, Texas, bus station for the last leg of their journey to join relatives in Atlanta. "I am here because of him."
Mejia, 32, and his son, who paid a smuggler $6,000 for a "new dream" that Honduras couldn't provide, are among the Border Patrol's nearly 170,000 encounters with migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border in March, a 20-year high. The total, announced Thursday, includes nearly 19,000 children traveling alone, the highest monthly number on record.
About four in 10 border encounters last month were with families and unaccompanied children — many from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — at a time when policies in the U.S. and Mexico favor them staying in the United States while they seek asylum. It marks the third sharp jump in Central American asylum-seekers in seven years.
For decades, predominantly Mexican men crossed the border illegally, with many returning for visits until heightened border security made going back and forth more difficult. Migration rose and fell but was fairly steady and predictable.
Over the last decade, a complex mix of factors has produced periodic, dramatic spikes, especially among families and children, who get more legal protections and require more care. The Government Accountability Officeidentified 10 potential causes for a spike in the number of unaccompanied children at the border in 2014, including poverty, violence and perceptions of U.S. immigration policy.
A large increase in family arrivals in 2019 followed an end to the Trump administration's practice of generally separating parents from their children at the border. The latest jump follows ferocious storms in Central America and President Joe Biden ending his predecessor's hardline immigration policies, though many changes attributed to Biden are rumors or have been fabricated by smugglers to generate business.
The "root causes" prompting Central Americans to leave haven't changed, said Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, whose temporary shelter has been hosting 400 to 500 people nightly, compared with a peak of about 1,000 in 2019.
"I think that it's simply that the traffickers use whatever is happening in the United States to extort the families, to lure them, to create a narrative that says, 'Come right now. The president is going to let you in,'" she said.
Migrants, in dozens of interviews over the last two weeks, generally said circumstances in Central America led them to the U.S. When asked about Biden, nearly all said his relatively pro-immigration positions influenced their thinking.
Smuggling fees vary widely, with some paying up to $10,000 a person in the Rio Grande Valley, the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. There is often a discount for additional relatives. The trip can take weeks in cars, buses and trucks, ending when an inflatable raft reaches the banks of the Rio Grande and families and children turn themselves in to Border Patrol agents.
Mejia said he and his son were in a group of 18 Hondurans on a trip divided into four parts, including one leg traveling in a trailer from Mexico City to Monterrey and a final stretch in an open-top boxcar to the border city of Reynosa. Children were told to be quiet when the trailer came to military checkpoints.
"(Smugglers) tell you it's going to go well, but the reality is different," Mejia said, turning to his 3-year-old son at the bus station in Brownsville, a border city of about 200,000 people on the Rio Grande. "I have a warrior here. We suffered greatly."
Douglas Perez, 24, said he stood with 10 people in a covered pickup truck, including his wife and two children, ages 4 and 1. He held the baby, planting his palm on the roof to avoid falling over. They were released in the U.S. with notices to report to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.
Perez, who paid a smuggler $27,000 to bring his family to the U.S., said he left the western highlands of Guatemala because his job picking corn no longer provided enough food to eat.
Carlos Enrique Linga, who was released from custody with his 5-year-old daughter, said he could no longer afford new clothes for his family in Guatemala after rains destroyed their house. That prompted him to try to join a friend in Tennessee to earn money. His wife, 2-year-old twins and newborn stayed in Guatemala because they couldn't pay a smuggler.
"Our houses got carried away by the current, the water," Linga said after breakfast in a migrant shelter in Mission, Texas. "Our ranch is no more. We are without a house."
The Border Patrol had 168,195 encounters with migrants last month, the highest since March 2001. The numbers aren't directly comparable because more than half of those stopped last month had been quickly expelled from the country under federal pandemic-related powers that deny people the right to seek asylum. Being expelled carries no legal consequences, so many people make multiple attempts.
Biden has exempted unaccompanied children from expulsion, allowing them to stay in the U.S. while pursuing asylum claims and live with "sponsors," usually parents or close relatives.
Mexico has been reluctant to take back Central American families with young children, especially in Tamaulipas state bordering the Rio Grande Valley, so many of them are being released in the U.S. while their claims are considered by immigration authorities.
Migrants who enter the Rio Grande Valley as single adults or in families with children 7 and older are expelled to Reynosa, an organized-crime stronghold. Unfounded rumors are rampant in a plaza there where migrants plan their next move. Last week, rumors spread that the U.S. would open its borders April 5 or that the borders would be open for Biden's first 100 days in office.
Hermelindo Ak, a corn grower, heard in Guatemala that chances were better for families but didn't know how a child's age was considered. Information seemed to change "day to day," he said.
He was expelled with his 17-year-old son, then sent his son alone for a second attempt after learning unaccompanied children can stay in the U.S. Ak, 40, planned to return home to his wife and other children, who stayed in Guatemala because they couldn't afford to pay a smuggler.


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A celebration of un-loved cuts of meat will take place in restaurants across London during May's 'Nose to Tail Fortnight' as part of a campaign to encourage less waste and more thoughtfulness when it comes to the meat industry.
The event has been organised by the Ethical Eats catering network and will see a host of specials go on the menus of participating restaurants featuring offal and other underused parts of the animal.
Over 30 restaurants across the capital are currently signed up, including Mason restaurant in Fulham. Head chef, Alan Stewart, says the campaign has an important message, 'It's important to have respect for your ingredients, especially meat,' he says, 'if you're going to kill an animal you have to use as much of it as possible and ensure there's no unnecessary wastage. As lamb is in season, we're serving lamb sweetbreads with pearl barley and wild garlic as a starter, and turning the leg meat into a confit, which we serve braised shoulder, roast loin and crispy breast for a main course.'
Other chefs backing the fortnight include Christophe Charbonnet and John Batho, from The People's Supermarket in Camden. 'Christophe is never happier than when he's hacking up a pig's head,' says John Batho, 'so we're really keen to get involved in this event. We are very tuned in to keeping food waste to a minimum, and already cook dishes such as chicken liver pâté, which sells out faster than we can make it, and slow-braised neck of pork, so it is perfect for us.'
At the launch day back in March, a butchery and workshop gave some insight as to what customers can expect. They included an 'ox heart burger' (pictured below) produced by Cristiano Meneghin from Tongue n' Cheek restaurant, and 'Coorg style pork' from Palash Mitra of the Cinnamon Club.
'The nose-to-tail campaign helps chefs to think about meat in a more complete way, encourages them to learn the necessary butchery and cooking skills, and prompts them to use the whole animal so that less food is wasted,' said Duncan O'Brien from Sustain; the alliance for better food and farming, who is coordinating the campaign. 'We're here to give advice on suppliers, butchers, animal welfare, and can even offer some recipe inspiration, to help restaurants make it happen.'
Statistics compiled by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs suggest that the UK wasted 7 million tonnes of food in 2009. Globally around a third of food produced for human consumption is wasted.
A recent survey by Jellied Eel magazine suggests consumers are not as picky about their meat as they are often portrayed. The results showed half of Londoners polled had brought offal, most commonly liver, kidneys and black pudding. But over 60 per cent had never eaten offal in a restaurant, despite nearly half those question saying they would buy it, if it appeared on restaurant menus more frequently.
'Exploring different foods and cuts makes eating that much more interesting,' continues O'Brien. 'Everybody also hates to see good food go to waste, and we know nose-to-tail eating makes more sense. Through this campaign, we'd love to reintroduce Londoners to cuts of meat and dishes that their grandparents loved to eat, and top chefs to the vast array of delicious recipes that use the whole animal, from nose to tail.'
Nose-to-Tail fortnight runs from 30th April for two weeks until the 14th May. An online map is available on the Ethical Eats website to help guide customers to participating restaurants. Patrons are also being encouraged to tweet photos of their meals and report back any taste revelations and new favourites.
GREEN LIVING Nose to tail eating: it's sustainable but can you stomach this type of meat? With 15 billion farm animals killed each year for food in the UK, eating the whole animal is the ethical choice. The Ecologist follows Fergus Henderson's lead and tries a week of eating offal |
HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE 10 ways to save money on food without compromising your principles In an extract from her new book What to Eat, investigative journalist Joanna Blythman offers top tips on how to make your food pound go further without scrimping on what you believe in |
INVESTIGATION Love Food Hate Waste: could you live without throwing food away? Madeleine Cuff challenged herself to spend a week reducing her food and packaging waste. Did it work, and will other consumers and supermarkets take note? |
GREEN LIVING Food of love: why 'aphrodisiac' oysters could be the sustainable alternative to meat Oysters need a thriving natural eco-system and ultra clean water to survive. And as Matilda Lee discovered on a visit to Loch Fyne Oysters, they even find their own food. So are oysters the green choice? |
NEWS ANALYSIS Photo Special Revealed: the secret horror of the world's 'mega' factory farms As the UK grapples with the arrival of 'mega' farms like Nocton and Foston, a shocking new book, CAFO, reveals the cruelty and vast scale of the global meat and dairy industry |


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Santa's Ghetto
15 Oxford Street, London UK
December 1st-23rd 2006
By Kelsey Brookes
Im pretty sure I invited myself out to London this year. No one really asked me to come out...I just kinda assumed I was invited. Logic would suggest that you should never fly half way around the world based solely on an assumption, but you also shouldn't quit a stable career as a scientist to pursue a half assed pipe dream of being able to paint for a living. Lucky for me I stuffed a sock in logic's mouth years ago hence the reason the folks at POW found me waiting on their door step with an arm load of paintings a few days before Santa's Ghetto opened this winter. For those of you who don't know....Santa's Ghetto is Pictures On Wall's annual art gallery in it's fifth year of artistic and monetary deception.
Just like last year this is the first picture I took with my camera. Unlike last year it is sunny and relatively warmer.....by relative I mean freezing to death would take about 10 minutes longer if left outside for too long. I took this on my daily commute to the Gallery. To call it a gallery really doesn't do it justice...I can't quite explain it because there is really nothing to compare it too. Its never in the same place twice, people from all over the globe come together and display their art in what is a very free and open environment, and there isn't a corner in the entire place that doesn't have something interesting happening.....It really has such a different feel to everything else I have experienced in art. It's kind of a cross between a carnival, a freak show and an art gallery...but with out all the cabbage stink.
This was the first thing I saw when I got to the gallery. This is work by Ericailcane or "Eric the Dog" from Italy. He collaborates with Blu on those massive Street pieces seen all over Italy and the rest of the world.
I was crazy happy to meet up with Washington DC based artist Mark Jenkins.....He is one busy kid traveling the world dropping tape babies where ever he goes. Such a pleasure to meet him.
This is a picture of one of Mode2's free hand figures. I just missed him putting it up but every one that saw it said he killed it. They also said he never uses any funky tips or anything but the can and the stock tip to rock all those lines .. fucking can control.
The googley eyed dork is me and that other guy is Ian Stevenson otherwise known as "I like drawing". I played fill in assistant for the day helping him finish up the Christmas Carnage scene he painted on the wall.
Things always get rushed just before the opening...but this year their was an entourage of reporters and camera men busting down the door to get in just before the crowd mobbed the place .lots has changed with these guys since last year.
Once again tiger beer......TIGER beer....it's like they know about me and my tiger thing.
The second the taped up windows were pulled down (the venue is kept secret until the show is open) there were people taking photos of the place and calling their friends. This year's Ghetto was on Oxford street....I don't know what the equivalent would be to Oxford street here in the states but Time Square might be appropriate?
This one of only 2 opening night photos I remembered to take.....give me a break, you saw all that free beer. Anyway this is my Australian buddy Morgan and his French girl under one of my paintings.
This is the other photo I took that night....beer tops....I know crap right?
Two days later (literally) I pulled myself out of bed and went back to the gallery to see if people still remembered it was there.....3-4 thousand people a day on average came to check out Santa's Ghetto.
Still taking photos of that front window...this never stopped either. I walked by this place one night at about 4 in the morning and there were still kids taking photos of the front window display.
I think this image, hung in the front window, might have had something to do with it....ya think?
This is what happens when you are POW and you open an art show on Oxford Street......you get people by the truck full..
This years parlor game was a blasphemous ring toss around the Virgin Mary's neck.....smashing!
The top painting is by d*face....who has a brilliant signature I might add...and the sculpture below it is by Joe Rush...hung upside down apparently.
This photo doesn't do Lucy Mclauchlan's amazing tree instillation justice...so great.
Mike J looking for some prey....Banksy
Wall of quilted bestiality...me.
This piece had to be the most tediously constructed on in the house.....those are rubix cubes placed just so by Space Invader.
Ian's finished painting. Those are little elves fighting reindeer.
Tom Ormond
Emma Heron's leg vending machine....kinda reminded me of that movie "Emanuel's Gift".....you know that one Oprah narrates....fucking Oprah right?
Paul Insect's latest creation is skulled up rock stars...that's Sid.
More Italian radness....by Eric the dog
This dude obviously had no idea there was a really pissed off panda with an equally pissed off hooded woman flipping him off just to his right.
This fellow's name is Tittyfreak.....yep....Titty Freak....he's from Brazil....so maybe there is some other meaning behind Tittyfreak in Portages but in English, well I'll leave it up to you to form an opinion. One thing is for sure though his art is top notch.
Guy in pin striped blazer really contemplating Faile's latest.
Everyone in the Ghetto walks around with their heads down....
This image and the below are created by Leftist tag team Peter Kennard and Kat who together created some interesting and striking images...smart cookies those two.
Mark Jenkins kills it when it comes to bodyless bodies.
My next painting?
Pure Evil, Dora and Steph.
This is POW's new location.....much bigger than last year but they have already outgrown it.
This is my new print just finished for POW. I signed them all in one go....wasn't too bad really...only 80 in this edition.
This is the man who, single handedly, is responsible for every single print that comes out of POW....his name is Ben. Ben took it upon himself to procreate since I had seen him last. This is him teaching his young boy how to take massive hits from a gravity bong....just kidding...not really....no really just kidding.
They have so much art just lying around the office.
I needed a temporary studio for a few days to get down and sling some paint....the store room worked just fine....had to be careful just where the paint was splashed though.
Here he is.....the man, the myth, the muffin....Mr. Ben, the king shit of fumes and single hinged silk screens.
Steph out at the market looking for something that doesn't smell like paint fumes...I followed her around like the paparazzi for a few days.
This is Steve Lazarides. He is quite possibly the busiest man in the world right now. You see that cell phone .it is permanently glued to his ear....and you'll notice he is bald too...that is a side effect of the constantly used cell phone melting his scalp .he had a beautiful afro only two years ago.
This is Steve's office and some of his personal collection.
This chap (and by chap I mean one of the best painters alive) is Antony Micallef.......we ran into him signing some of his prints up in Steve's office. He lives in some beach town just south of London (with no surf) and paints some of the best shit I have ever seen .in a studio full of old landscape painters that don't understand a thing he does.
Below are a bunch of random shots I snapped while walking between Museums and Pubs.....actually that's pretty much all I did....sleep, paint, museum, pub...rinse and repeat.
For more on Kelsey Brookes, check kelseybrookes.com
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